Fighting for Life (2008)

Fighting for Life is a very different movie about war and medicine a reallife MASH for our times about the doctors and nurses fighting on the front lines The film interweaves stories of military doctors nurses and medics who are working with skill compassion and dedication amid the vortex of the Iraq War wounded soldiers and marines reacting with courage dignity and determination to survive and to heal and students at Uniformed Services University the West Point of military medicine on their journey toward becoming career military physicians The film also follows 21yearold Army Specialist Crystal Davis from Iraq to Germany to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington DC as she fights to recover and bounce back from the loss of a leg